Did anyone catch the bizarre story about Adam Herrman from Kansas? He went missing in 1999 (ah, the year I graduated high school--mems!) and his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman are just now talking to authorities--almost a decade later. Hear why the Herrman's think it's okay (and uh, me roar!) after the jump.

The Herrman's adopted Adam when he was 2 1/2 years old and nine years later he disappeared from a mobile home park where the family lived. Mom and Dad Herrman didn't call the authorities and since he was home-schooled, there was no teacher or fellow-students to wonder about his absence--still, no one else noticed he was...gone? No one normal, apparently--with a conscious.

The Herrman's attorney, Warner Eisenbise, maintains his clients are innocent (obvi) and released a statement as to why the parents did not alert authorities or even go looking for the boy in 1999 (Really? Tell me! Dying to hear this! Because they are a-holes?):

"He was a problem child. He ran away frequently to the point of exasperation,'' Eisenbise said. ''My clients feel very guilty that the last time he left they didn't make an attempt to locate him. Every other time, the police were called or he wandered back. They assumed he found one of his siblings or went back to his biological parents."

However, new developments say that Adam was allegedly abused. Valerie Herrman's sister, Kim Winslow told the CBS morning show that she remembers a time when the boy was handcuffed to the faucet and locked in the bathroom. "We were told not to use that bathroom, to use another bathroom, because he was in there supposedly because he was bad," said Winslow to CBS. Well, Kim Winslow, must be nice to get your 15-minutes of fame on the CBS morning show almost a decade later (Bravo), too bad you weren't a human being when the poor thing was chained up in a bathroom, or so you say. Another family member, Valerie's ex-sister-in-law, Linda Bush says Valerie used to tell Adam he was "stupid." Again, nice of you to help the innocent child, Bush. Did you tell everyone you were on TV? You're so fancy! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The other night when Uncle Bri was over he looked at me and said: "I love your son so much!" It was really sweet to hear my macho bro articulate this. And I said: "I know. I would literally die if something ever happened to him or anyone ever tried to hurt him or uh, just God Forbid." JD is the most awesome little person and I'm a cheeseball of love because of him. I mean, he does the most obnoxious things sometimes, like yesterday I found a sippy cup of milk that smelled like a decomposing animal in the umbrella can--and I laughed. It had to be in there for...a week. Oh man! I was like: "JD? What did you do?" And he smiled and declared: "Cup!" (PS: My kid is a genius) and hugged my legs. God, I love him. So as a mom, you read stories like this (and correct me if I'm wrong) you want to slap the Herrman's across the face and yell "WTF?" Loriknows--I know you want to throw down. I mean even if they didn't abuse him, even if they didn't kill him...they didn't go looking for him when he went missing--Gee, hon, guess Adam, 11, went to find his real mommy! He'll be able to find her with no money and any information. What's for dinner?

This gets me thinking about that beautiful, little girl, Caylee Anthony. Her mother, Casey, waited a month's time to report her toddler was missing and is now on trial for first degree murder. She claims the babysitter kidnapped Caylee--but the babysitter doesn't exist. She was also photographed clubbing during the month her kid was missing--clubbing! I really hate that anyone can procreate. Seriously. There are so many women who want babies, but for health reasons can't get pregnant, but this twit has a baby and does this!

Sorry to be a Debbie-Downer today. Let's talk through it. I'm sad but excited too--Mc Dreamy and Priv. Prac. is on tonight and I have a box of micro popcorn in the cabinet. It's like date night. And I'm posting something really funny 2m.

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